By its nature, Idaho's
transportation system is constantly moving,
changing, evolving. It's not the same
system today that it was a generation
ago. And it will not be the same tomorrow
as it is today. The Idaho Transportation
Department - each of you individually
and collectively - plays a critical role
in shaping the system of the future.Continue

Academy
provides training for advancementITD’s
district engineers, faced with high turnover among
its corps of maintenance foremen, proposed a new
training system for employees moving through the
ranks to the supervisory level. The Maintenance
Academy development team took the concept a couple
of steps farther. What emerged from those initial
discussions is a three-level Maintenance Academy.Continue

Boot
camp introducesarchitect
conceptJohn
Zachman, considered the
“father of Enterprise
Architecture," was
the featured speaker on
the first day of a four-day
Enterprise Architecture
“boot camp”
this week. The workshop
was designed to help the
31 applicants attending
become better positioned
to compete for one of
the department’s
new enterprise architect
positions.Continue

Employees
learn fine art of speakingIn
an effort to help ease this
propensity for stage fright,
ITD’s District 3 thought
it a good idea to offer
staff members the opportunity
to improve their speaking
skills, one lunch break
at a time.Continue

Keeping
the wheels turning in Coeur
d'Alene You're
driving home on U.S. 95,
and you're in a hurry. You
spot a string of green lights
ahead and think you've got
it made. Then the light
turns red and you're stopped
– only to sit and
wait for what seems like
an eternity. But it's not.
In reality, the cycle time
is 140 seconds, because
that is the maximum "wait
time" for each of the
state's traffic lights on
U.S. 95.Continue

Contract
manual goes digitalHard
copies of Contract Administration
(CA)Manual updates will
no longer be distributed
in paper form, announces
Doug Chase, P.E., assistant
construction engineer.
CA Manual Update No. 161,
dated Oct. 10, is the
last one distributed in
hard copy. Subsequent
updates may be downloaded
from the Construction
Section home page located
on the ITD Intranet.Continue